Archive Update! I’m sending over some videos from 2020, so sorry to inundate your email! This discussion took place in 2020 with Wayne State University Press author, Lolita Hernandez.

August 15, 2020

I had so much fun this past month deconstructing stories with Desiree Cooper and Laura Thomas; I plan to continue with this format through the fall. Please let me know if you have a new book of short stories out so we can discuss it!

Today on the blog, Lolita Hernandez and I will discuss her story, “Process Server,” from her award-winning Wayne State University Press collection, Making Callaloo in Detroit.

It’s best to read the story before listening to our discussion so we don’t spoil the ending for you. Just click on this link below:

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Bio: Lolita Hernandez is the author of two collections of short stories: Making Callaloo in Detroit, a 2015 Michigan Notable Book, and Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in various literary venues. She is also a 2012 Kresge Fellow. After over thirty-three years as a UAW member at General Motors and twelve on the University of Michigan Creative Writing Department faculty at the Residential College, she recently retired to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stay safe and well, everyone.

Love,

Kelly

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